Forgive me if this has already been discussed. I was just reading in the forums about people trying to write in "heavy metal" as a religion on the 2010 census and that got me to thinking. Is there a Pastafarian option as religious choice on the census? Probably not. Should we Pastafarians write one in? I think so! Who's with me???

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If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?Margot Fonteyn

If a man means me no offense and I am offended, I am a fool. If a man means me offense and I am offended, I am still a fool.

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"I am weary of chickens. How they look up at us with their small eyes as though we were unimportant." - Pablo Naruda
"Well they do. And we are. It's just hard to take it from a damn chicken!" - Greg Brown

Typically they don't ask for your religion as a descriptor of yourself, but rather as the name of the religion to which you belong, ie. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Sometimes people do put self-descriptors in if they're writing in if they don't belong to a religious organization, but they could just as easily write "agnosticism" or "atheism" as they could "agnostic" or "atheist". Typically they'll know what you mean if it's a well-known religious belief or lack thereof, of course.

I suggest we go with "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster", just to make it official-looking and match it up with the way they list the religions on the form. That's what I'd do.

This is my first real post here. I was going to make a new topic but then I noticed this one and figured thread necromancy was better than multiple threads on the same topic.

I myself intend to put Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as my religion on the UK census next year. I think that we should spread the word of this plan and try to get as many forumite's as possible on board.

The first public activity of the Bulgarian Pastafarian Church -http://www.novatv.bg/bg/news/view/10994 ... 1%82%D0%BE- protest at National Statistical Institute on 16.11.2010, demanding to provide the option “Pastafarian” as a possible answer of the question about religion in the forthcoming national census in February 2011.

We don't have a mandatory religion question any more in Scotland, after the whole 'Jedi' thing 10 years ago...

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